Recently, while setting up a FreeBSD laptop, I was configuring Phpactor as Language Server for PHP. The idea was to have it working in Vim through the YouCompleteMe plugin. While trying to start the Phpactor server, I received the following error (among others): Use of undefined constant SIGINT – assumed ‘SIGINT’ (this will throw an Error in a future version…
Author: Pavel Espinal
Vdebug: Xdebug not showing full array contents
Have you ever tried to debug some PHP code in Vim just to find that Xdebug won’t show the full array contents? Fortunately the DBGP protocol allows you to set features for debugging, such as the max length of data that the debugger returns. You can set these features in the Vim dictionary g:vdebug_features, and they will be sent to…
Bash API Contract Testing
We have been doing some API development at work, and at one point we started evaluating tools for API contract testing. One of the explored approaches was drafting a bash script that glued some native Linux tools together in order to achieve the desired results. That’s how this tool came to be. It is a proof of concept (POC) used…
Bash: echo ignores here-documents
Well, not quite. I mean, if you are trying to use here-documents with the echo command in bash and it seems you are getting an empty line instead, the issue might be that echo is displaying only the first line, and it turns out to be an empty one. Consider the following example: $ echo < this is not >…
Xdebug: vim stopping on the first line of the script when using vdebug
If you are using vdebug and you are facing the situation where vim is stopping in the first line of any script you want to debug (or if you want it to actually stop), make sure to modify the following value in your .vimrc file: let g:vdebug_options.break_on_open = 0 As the official documentation states: This determines whether the debugger should…
vim-gutentags ignoring exclude parameters from ctags
If you’re using vim-gutentags with Vim and struggling to exclude directories like node_modules, vendor, or themes from your tags file, you’re not alone—and the fix is simpler than you think. The issue usually comes down to one thing: path format mismatch. vim-gutentags expects relative paths in your exclude patterns, but many users accidentally use absolute paths, causing ctags to ignore the exclusions entirely.…
Magazon WordPress Theme Error
Yo!, what’s up? I’ll post this here in order to (hopefully) save someone some time: If you happen to be using a WordPress theme called Magazon (even the latest versions), you probably found out that it’s broken. The issue gets worst as in latest version of WordPress it is not evident what the problem is because WordPress suppresses the error…
I Have Made My Routine Myself, But In The Simplest Way: Accumulation
I have made my routine myself, but in the simplest way: accumulation. The security of knowing myself capable of something better, put postponement in my hands, which in the end is a terrible and suicidal weapon. Hence, my routine has never had character or definition; It has always been provisional, it has always been a precarious course, to follow nothing…
VicTsing Mechanical Keyboard: The Right Tool For A Programmer’s Job
Allow me to introduce you the VicTsing Mechanical Keyboard. But before gong ahead talking about its characteristics, let me tell you why I bought it. As you might know, I was working as Customer Support Agent for a hosting company (I’m on the Development department now). I used to attend approximately 1800 chat sessions per month (3-5 chats at a time…
How People Change
While trying to get back in shape with some good habits, once again I grabbed a book that I started reading a while ago. It has been a very refreshing reading, as tend to be the case with books authored by Paul D. Tripp and/or Timothy S. Lane (you can add David Powlison here, as well) Allow me to share…